Cover -- Half-title -- Series-title -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Contributors -- Acknowledgments -- Note on texts and terminology -- Chapter 1 Introduction: literary fiction in the Berlin Republic -- Integration, normalisation and globalisation -- Memory, political correctness, generation and global culture -- German-language literature in the berlin republic -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Chapter 2 Literary debates and the literary market since unification -- Politics and aesthetics in german literary history -- German literature and the literary market -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Chapter 3 Berlin as the literary capital of German unification -- Ein weites feld -- Helden wie wir -- Falscher hase -- 'Gina regina' -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Chapter 4 'GDR literature' in the Berlin Republic -- Idealism and socialist values -- Ingo schulze's 'simple storys' from the former gdr -- Thomas brussig and german unification -- Younger writers from the east -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Chapter 5 'West German writing' in the Berlin Republic -- Conflicting images of the 'old' frg -- The 78ers and the generation golf - pop and politics? -- A socially committed literature for the new millennium? -- Conclusion -- Postscript -- Notes -- Chapter 6 Literary reflections on '68 -- The legacy of '68 -- The myth of '68 -- '68 deconstructed -- '68 re-imagined -- '68 illuminated -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Chapter 7 Pop literature in the Berlin Republic -- What is pop literature? -- Pop literature and the new economy -- Pop-modern jamming -- Tristesse royale, or the triumph of marketing -- Pop against the generation of '68 -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Chapter 8 Representations of the Nazi past I: perpetrators -- Historical context and relativisation -- Contextualisation as critical tool -- Conclusion -- Notes.

Chapter 9 Representations of the Nazi past II: German wartime suffering -- The air war: dieter forte's der junge mit den blutigen schuhen -- The expulsions from the east: g nter grass's im krebsgang -- The frontline soldier: unscharfe bilder and am beispiel meines bruders -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Chapter 10 German literature in the Berlin Republic - writing by women -- Postfeminism? -- Anti-authenticity -- A third way, the third sex -- Conclusion, continuities and correspondences -- Notes -- Chapter 11 Cultural memory and identity formation in the Berlin Republic -- Migrating memories in the frg and the former gdr -- Border zones and geological time -- Eastern european memories -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Chapter 12 Turkish-German fiction since the mid 1990s -- Feridun zaimoglu -- Emine sevgi ozdamar -- Zafer senocak -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Chapter 13 German-language writing from eastern and central Europe -- Where is my homeland? -- Speaking the unspeakable -- Swimming against the cold war -- Practising peace amid war -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Chapter 14 Writing by Germany's Jewish minority -- Overview of german-jewish literature in the berlin republic -- Just over the border -- Living in hitlerland -- A third view -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Index.